Charles Robert Meloni (1927 - 2012)

Born 22 Dec 1927 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Cecile Lydia (Chagnon) Meloni — married 8 May 1954 in Gorham, Coos, New Hampshire, United States

Descendants

Died 6 Aug 2012 at age 84 in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States

Biography

Charles Robert Meloni was born in 1927. He was the son of Charles Meloni and Mary Repetti.

Graduate of Boston Latin School, Harvard University, Georgetown Univ. and New York Medical College. A Fellow of the Am. College of Endocrinologists and Am. College of Physicians. Served in the US Navy as a Lieutenant in the 1950s.

He married his wife Cecile Lydia Chagnon on May 8, 1954 in New Hampshire.^[1]

Father of actor Christopher Meloni

Charles passed away in 2012.

Sources

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95291799/charles-robert-meloni: accessed 25 January 2023), memorial page for Dr Charles Robert Meloni (22 Dec 1927–6 Aug 2012), Find a Grave Memorial ID 95291799, citing Ivy Hill Cemetery, Alexandria, Alexandria City, Virginia, USA; Maintained by IHCHPS (contributor 46973402).

1. ↑ Marriage to Cecile Lydia Chagnon: "New Hampshire Marriage Certificates, 1948-1959," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKJ7-JVQF : 8 March 2021), Charles Robert Meloni and Cecile Lydia Chagnon, 08 May 1954; citing Marriage, New Hampshire, New Hampshire - Vital records, United States, New Hampshire Vital Records Office.

Christopher Meloni was born in Washington, D.C., the youngest of three children (he has a brother and sister) of Cecile (née Chagnon; 1926–2016),[3] a homemaker, and Charles Robert Meloni (1927–2012), an endocrinologist.[4][5][6] His maternal ancestry is French Canadian (he is a descendant of Matthias Farnsworth) and his paternal ancestry is Italian, with roots in Velva [it], Castiglione Chiavarese, Genova, Liguria.[7]

Meloni attended St. Stephen's School[8] (now St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School) in Alexandria, Virginia, and played quarterback on the football team. He studied acting at the University of Colorado at Boulder and graduated with a degree in history in 1983. After graduation, Meloni went to New York where he continued his studies with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre as well as the Center for the Media Arts.